Vaginal Bleeding Before 20 Weeks Gestation
Conditions that often present with vaginal bleeding before 20 weeks are common and can cause morbidity and mortality. Clinically stable patients can choose their management options. Clinically unstable patients require urgent procedural management: uterine aspiration, dilation and evacuation, or surgical removal of an ectopic pregnancy. Septic abortion requi res prompt procedural management, intravenous antibiotics, and intravenous fluids. Available data on prognosis with expectant management of pre-viable rupture of membranes in the United States are poor for mothers and fetuses.
Source: Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics - Category: OBGYN Authors: Brenna Banwarth-Kuhn, Miriam McQuade, Jamie W. Krashin Source Type: research